I'm writing my thesis as a report document using TeXShop (pdflatex and bibtex) and want the bibliography to get its own section number and appear in the table of contents. Here's what I've tried so far and the problems arising:

\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References}

Does not add the section number, not in the toc and naturally not in the section title.

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Preliminary remark: In the report class, the bibliography will by default be typeset as an unnumbered chapter. If I understand correctly, you do not only want the bibliography to be numbered, but also "downgraded" to a section.

One solution is to selectively change the definition of \thebibliography. Add the following to your preamble:

Works like a charm, thank you very much! (And also for correcting the bibilography-typo) :)
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PascalNov 3 '10 at 18:17

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Note that this doesn't work with natbib. I've changed natbib.sty (added an option tocnumber) to get me a numbered \section
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PascalJan 6 '11 at 11:40

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@Pascal: it's not necessary to change natbib; all that's needed is to \renewcommand{\bibsection}{\chapter{\refname}} or \renewcommand{\bibsection}{\section{\bibname}}, depending on the level you want assign the bibliography to.
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egregJun 11 '11 at 10:10